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Can you tame a pressed ham?
Posted by Ben Weldon on June 24, 2010 at 4:50 AM
Pol Pot 2
Perhaps you're a sucker for a writer who is unable to tame the English language, and so constructs endless run on sentences. Perhaps.
Posted by Pol Pot http://bottlefuelrag.blogspot.com on June 24, 2010 at 7:03 AM
gloomy gus 3
When I tried to tame a pressed ham, they adjusted my dosage.
Posted by gloomy gus on June 24, 2010 at 7:59 AM
Estey 4
Sorry, but the American need to make writing "appealing to an 8th grader" (no thanks, Vonnegut) leaves out many of my favorite authors: Celine, Robbe-Grillet, etc. (Currently: Check out Eileen Myles' "The Importance of Being Iceland" for some wonderful long sentences that are sinewy with thought and flow.) Thanks, Brandon.
Posted by Estey on June 24, 2010 at 8:07 AM
Estey 5
Whoops, Brendan. All apologies.
Posted by Estey on June 24, 2010 at 8:08 AM
Fnarf 6
@2 is right. That's run-on gibberish. The writer needs to investigate some other punctuation marks besides commas. The real long-sentence masters, Henry James, f'rinstance, would be appalled. Not that it made him an interesting writer but he knew what a semi-colon was for. Even Louis-Ferdinand Celine knew to use ellipses instead.
Posted by Fnarf http://www.facebook.com/fnarf on June 24, 2010 at 10:16 AM
Fnarf 7
Oh, and "pressed ham" has one and only one meaning in the Stranger universe.
Posted by Fnarf http://www.facebook.com/fnarf on June 24, 2010 at 10:21 AM
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#2 and #7. It's not a single sentence; it's just punctuated all wrong.
Posted by bobbo on June 24, 2010 at 11:19 AM
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#2 and #6. fixed.
Posted by bobbo on June 24, 2010 at 11:19 AM
Estey 10
I'll take ellipses over commas, too, Fnarf, though I was thinking more about the ranty sections of "Journey to the End of the Night" than the full-on "Death on the Installment Plan" Celine.
Posted by Estey on June 24, 2010 at 3:08 PM

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